Have a great Sunday,
-Miss Honey
Miss Honey's 5th Grade Hive |
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Check out my STEM page to learn about my STEM lesson about the human body! Feel free to share other STEM lesson plans you have used in your classroom. Thank you!
Have a great Sunday, -Miss Honey
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This past week in 5th grade I made a BIG teacher move. It was my first time ever teaching a brand new math unit. I was so excited and nervous. Posted down below is my lesson plan for the first day of the unit. With the new MAFS, my students have been discouraged and disappointed with their grades. By collecting data on math homework, performance tasks, chapter tests, and anecdotal notes in class, I have calculated that students do not have the background knowledge that that standards are expecting them to have to be successful in the chapter. From the data, I decided to spend my engage of the lesson by learning what my students know about line plots. Also, I engaged my class by using Skittles as a math manipulative. The lesson was very inquiry based and hands-on learning. My collaborating teacher told me she was inspired by my lesson and wanted me to take the lead on teaching this chapter! I feel prepared from USF by having support with my content coach and from learning by experience with my CT. Expect a data chart to come soon about my math questions with this lesson! Thanks for reading bloggers, -Miss Honey This week in 5th grade I had the glorious opportunity of substituting for 3 full days! My collaborating teacher had me create all of the lesson plans. This was my first time not following a sub plan and I loved it. I felt like this is my classroom, my students, and a learning community. There is one lesson plan that I am specifically proud of and I am going to post it below. My lesson was inspired by Hillsborough County's Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) 5th grade Space Unit. I was very excited to have a Space themed LDC and to begin teaching with thematic units. I have researched thematic units and believe it is a best practice for students to retain information. Hillsborough County Public Schools creates scripted lessons for teachers in the LDC packets. I worked with my literacy content coach, Brian, to adapt the scripted lesson to meet the needs of my students. They were feeling overwhelmed and stressed with the LDC running 3 hours of their morning learning only about space. I modified the lesson by making connections to the Tampa Bay area to give my students that real-world connection. Posted below is my lesson plan followed by my reflections. Enjoy teachers! On Friday I had the pleasure of being a substitute for my 5th grade class. My CT handed my the district calendar and said here you go! I created all of the lesson plans and had successful time teaching my students about the inner and outer planets in science and coding similarities and differences in the text during ELA. For math, I taught my class the power of 10 strategy to use to help determine where to place the decimal in the quotient. It was the end of literacy week and to celebrate I added a buddy reading into my lesson plans. My class checked out their favorite book from the library for morning work. After my ELA lesson we traveled down to Kindergarten to read our favorite books and help the Kindergarteners with their reading. I told my class we are the role models of the school. Kindergarten looks up to you. They want to know they can be a great reader someday just like you are! I had one student who had a negative attitude saying this is "so lame." I sat down with him and read next to him. Then he helped the Kindergartener read and I have ever seen him smile so big when his partner read the word! It was like a lightbulb went off that I matter, I can teach other people what I know. It was such a great experience and I can't wait to continue this as a teacher. |